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The above poser and swellsley gets it. The posters here seem to believe those of us offended by the movie (and unlike most of them, I've seen it) are tagging any movie with destruction to NYC as a 9/11 movie. No. I Am Legend, for example, which definitely plays on the mood of 9/11, nonetheless doesn't exploit the very definite imagery of that day. It's an oblique reference. Cloverfield, in addition to being a piece of shit for all the reasons some have supposed, does replicate that with no depth, no thought, no larer dimension.
That's the thoughtful response. The gut response is, if you weren't here on that day, fuck you and your insistence that we should get over our reaction to those images. Would you tell a war veteran who felt some war movies cheapened his experience to get over it? The level of callousness here suggests you probably would.
Yes, for you creeps, 9/11 is spectacle.
